Wednesday, May 22, 2013

I am thrilled to write this morning to share with you a project that I've been working on lately with my colleague Bob Feldman, a website entitled African Security Central.

In short, African Security Central is an open source resource that aspires to help government policymakers, academics, journalists, and students find the broadest array of information on African security affairs in the most centralized and convenient form possible.

As you'll see if you elect to visit the site, we have disaggregated various dimensions of African security by state and topic, listing various resources for research, teaching, and learning on each. Moreover, under our "Research Resources" pages, we have assembled a breadth of academic syllabi, datasets, maps, newspapers, and institutional resources germane to the study of African security.

Given that this endeavor is inevitably under constant evolution, we would greatly appreciate any comments, suggestions, or resources that you could offer to help us improve the site. Particularly, we would be pleased to add links to any of your own articles, books, reports, or syllabi if you would be so willing to share.

We sincerely hope that this website will be of use to you, your colleagues, and your students, and thus we encourage you to share this email with any potentially interested parties.

Thanks so much for your consideration of this project, and we'll look forward to hearing your thoughts soon!

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

I am happy to welcome you at the launching of my new book on Economic Crisis as per the attached invitation card and book cover. This is my academic output/publication number 50. The launching event will take place at Holiday Inn Hotel, near Kazi/ILO House on Thursday 16th 2013 from 10:00am to 12:00 noon. The guest of honour is Former Prime Minister of Tanzania, Hon. Edward Lowasa. The executive copies of the book will be auctioned at the launching event and ordinary copies will also be available for selling. I hope you can spare the two hours for this important schorlarly event where you will also get opportunity to network with scholars, captains and titans of the industry in the private sector, public sector officials, Civil Society Oranizations Leaders, development partners, the media and the general public from all walks of life. The book will be available in all major bookshops/sales point in the country. Currently copies are available at the Survey Bookshop (CCBC), Mzumbe University Dar Stationery; Dar Es Salaam International Airport newspaper sales stand; and can also be ordrered directly from me.

Karibu kwenye ulingo wa kutafakari kuhusu tunapotoka,tulipo,tuendako na namna ambavyo tutafika huko tuendako/Welcome to a platform for reflecting on where we are coming from, where we are, where we are going and how we will get there